The Unborn (2009)

Movie
German title	The Unborn
Original title	The Unborn
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2009
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 JMK 14
Rod
Director	David S. Goyer
script	David S. Goyer
production	Michael Bay Andrew form Brad Fuller
music	Ramin Djawadi
camera	James Hawkinson
cut	Jeff Betancourt
occupation
Odette Annable : Casey Beldon Gary Oldman : Rabbi Joseph Sendak Cam Gigandet : Mark Hardigan Meagan Good : Romy Jane Alexander : Sofi Kozma James Remar : Gordon Beldon Idris Elba : Arthur Wyndham Atticus Shaffer : Matty Newton Carla Gugino : Janet Beldon Ethan Cutkosky : Barto Rachel Brosnahan : Lisa

The Unborn is an American horror - thriller from David S. Goyer from the year 2009, which started off in German cinemas on March 12 of 2009.

action

As a young woman, Casey, a student, is haunted by frightening dreams and visions. When she is alerted of changes in her eye color , a doctor tells her that the change has occurred in some twins. After her father admits that she had a twin brother, who died in the womb before birth, she begins to investigate.

After a while, she meets her grandmother, who initially does not reveal herself, but later helps her to understand these visions. The grandmother tells Casey about experiments with twin siblings at Auschwitz . At that time a dibbuk seized her brother, who has been looking for human bodies since then in order to enter the human dimension through mirrors and ideally prefers Casey's body. At that time, however, she does not yet know why and how.

Casey frees himself from this demon after some time through an exorcistic ritual that demands many sacrifices - including the life of her friend.

In the final scene, she realizes that she was pregnant the whole time and that the demon wanted to be born over her.

Reviews

Christina Krisch wrote on March 12, 2009 in the Kronen-Zeitung that the film only consists of clichés and that there is no solid plot or even exciting moments completely. For male viewers it might be nice to see the main actress jumping through the picture in every predictable creepy scene in underwear, but this hardly gives goose bumps.

"Formally respectable variation of the" Exorcist "subject, but in terms of content it is nothing more than a simple obsession slaughter with crude subplots. A more intensive study of Jewish religious mysticism would have done the cliché-laden plot good. "

- Lexicon of international film

Copyright lawsuit

In January 2012, Platinum Dunes , Rogue Pictures and Relativity Media were sued in Los Angeles Superior Court. A descendant of Erna Segal claimed that her book "Transfers" from 1990, which she had published under the pseudonym Erna Olinger, was being misused for the implementation of the script without permission. The grandson wanted to sell the rights to the book to Pat Dollard in 2005 , but these negotiations failed.

Web links

• The Unborn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Unborn in the Lexicon of International Films
• The Unborn in the online film database
• Official Film Website (English)
• Film review on Heftfilme.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Unborn . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 095 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for The Unborn . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ Kronen-Zeitung of March 12, 2009
4. ↑ Lawsuit Claims Relativity Ripped Off Horror Movie 'The Unborn'
5. ↑ The Unborn - Jumby wants to be Sued